Davie man promised girl, 14, iPod for naked images, cops say

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May 24, 2013|Sun Sentinel

A Davie man enticed a 14-year-old girl into sending him naked pictures of her genitals by promising to buy her an Apple iPod, police said.

Michael Solano, 62, is facing more than a dozen counts of the charge of engaging a child in a sexual performance along with child pornography and drug charges. He's being held without bond at Broward County's Main Jail.

Authorities began investigating Solano in April when the teenager's parents were going through her cellphone and noticed several images of their daughter's breasts and vagina, a Davie police report said.

The teen told her parents that she sent the images to Solano because he promised to buy her the iPod.

According to the police report, Solano lives in the same neighborhood as the girl and her parents and they all attend the same church.

As part of the investigation, detectives set up a controlled telephone call between the teenage girl and Solano during which he acknowledged receiving naked pictures from her and urging her to send more, the police report said.

A subsequent search of Solano's home turned up a computer containing five pornographic images of girls estimated to be 7-years-old performing oral sex acts, the police report said.